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My favorite post of the week, titled The Path to Contentment, sings to me. It comes from Frugal Dad who writes about a shift in thinking caused by a series of events in his life and the lives of those around him. Faced with the notion of mortality Frugal Dad has started to focus more … Read more
The other day a woman stood in the return line at Target with an overflowing cart of baby items. When she reached the cashier, she said, “I’d like to return everything in my cart.” “Most of these are duplicates,” she said, pulling out items and placing them on the counter in front of her. “They … Read more
I received an early copy of Wise Bread’s 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget and couldn’t help but laugh when I reached page 220. Under the topic The Best and Worst Places to Stash Your Cash the book recommends hiding cold, hard cash in a half empty tampon box. According to the … Read more
The May issue of Money Magazine contains an interesting article titled How the Crisis is Changing You. According to the author “a new set of American values is emerging from the ashes of 600,000 layoffs a month, a lost decade in stocks, and the worst housing crash ever. For most of us it amounts to … Read more
Four years ago on this very day I landed in the emergency room with a very large pulmonary embolism. I hadn’t felt right for nearly two weeks. I visited the doctor on three occasions in less than ten days, but the doctor failed to diagnose my condition. Each time she sent me home and reassured … Read more
Everyone seems to have an opinion on the AIG bonuses and the mismanagement of taxpayer money. Today’s Washington Post article finds compassion for the AIG employees from a group of fourth-graders from an elementary school outside of Houston.
I’ve been feeling a bit more creative lately. This past week I set aside at least an hour each day to read and I think it’s recharged my right-brain just a little bit. The idea of creating a vision board has been rolling around in my head for days, so tonight I finally sat down … Read more
I stayed up tonight to watch Jim Cramer on The Daily Show. For the most part Jim Cramer just sat and nodded his head while Jon Stewart calmly and rationally criticized a financial news network that makes a game of making money. At one point while Cramer attempted to justify his antics, Stewart said, “I … Read more
Today marks the three year blog anniversary of One Frugal Girl. This blog actually came into creation at a very dark time in my life. In March of 2006 I was stuck at home recovering from a very intense surgery. For months prior to that surgery I had been in and out of doctor’s offices … Read more
Before graduating from college, (nearly ten years ago), I was presented with two very different job offers. The first offer consisted of a $45,000 salary working as a marketing assistant for a small technical organization that employed only sixteen people. The second offer consisted of a $30,000 salary working as a software engineer for a … Read more